MLB - Baseball's confusing and contradictory unwritten rules - ESPN
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Several years ago, Joe Horn, a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, scored a touchdown, pulled out a cell phone that he had taped inside the goal post, and made a call, or at least pretended to. "And no one in football cared!" Baker says. "If that had happened in baseball ... if someone had hit a home run, reached home plate, took a cell phone out of his stirrup and called someone, he wouldn't finish the phone call. There would be balls flying into both dugouts. It would be like a Cuban winter-ball game, with guys running around with bats in their hands. Oh my God, the world would stop spinning on its axis. The ice caps would melt."
McCarthy laughs and says, "Oh my God, he would never get to home plate. Bats would be tomahawking out of both dugouts. Where would a player hide a cell phone, under a base?"
McGehee says, "The game would never get to the next hitter. It would be so ugly."
Says the Tigers' Torii Hunter, "That would start the greatest brawl in major league history. I would drop my glove, chase the guy down, and beat the s--- out of him. And I'd do the same thing if he was on my team. The camera shot would be of his entire team, piled on top of him, pummeling him. I hope that never happens in baseball."
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My opinion on the Ortiz/Price thing is simple - Price clearly threw at Ortiz and should have been thrown out of the game or suspended. Once he intentionally hit Ortiz and then hit another Red Sox batter (intentionally or not) and wasn't thrown out of the game, Workman didn't have a choice.
I'm guessing the umps pre-warned the teams before Sunday's game, but every time we play them I would hit the first batter we face with 2 outs and nobody on. Same point I made earlier - the umps almost automatically warn both teams now, and it prevents the instant payback that should alleviate the matter. And that's coming from someone who hated the Red Sox bitching about stealing 3rd in a 5-run game the week before.
Fwiw, what I'm really worried about is the Red Sox OF situation. Coming into tonight's game, Boston OF batting line of .215/.287/.327/.614 is the worst in team history. In all 4 categories: BA, OBP, SGP, OPS